Recurrence

SAN ANTONIO — Elevated BMI increased risk for breast cancer mortality and distant recurrence among women with early-stage disease, according to findings presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

One-third of childhood cancer survivors reported high levels of fear of cancer recurrence even decades after treatment, according to results of a cross-sectional analysis.

PHILADELPHIA — Recurrent glomerulonephritis and long-term graft survival vary in certain patients who had a kidney transplant, data presented at the American Transplant Congress shows.

PHILADELPHIA — There are 32 proteins that could be of interest to help predict focal segmental glomerulosclerosis recurrence in patients with kidney disease, according to presented data.

Patients with vertebral osteomyelitis who underwent surgical intervention had lower rates of mortality and recurrence at 1 year compared with patients who received nonoperative treatment, according to published results.

Delaying post-operative radiation therapy for the treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma beyond 8 weeks significantly increased patients’ risk for locoregional recurrence, according to a study.

High rates of recurrence and metastasis associated with mesenchymal dermal neoplasms — specifically pleomorphic dermal sarcoma — should prompt dermatologists to follow-up with their patients more often, according to a study.

When David Spiegel, MD, led a session on fear of recurrence at the Cancer Center Survivorship Research Forum, he mentioned a Charlie Brown cartoon panel he’d recently seen.

Findings from a nationwide, population-based cohort study revealed that the current staging system used for melanoma does not represent accurate recurrence and mortality.

The strongest predictor of lentigo maligna melanoma progression is histologic margin status, and patients with margins less than 3 mm should consider re-excision, according to a study.